TABLE 16 - CANDIDATES FOR THE CROWN PRESENTED TO THE ELECTION SEYMS
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| Year | Candidate |
| 1573 | Ernest Habsburg of Austria
*Henri Valois, Duke of Anjou+
Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia
John III Vasa of Sweden
Stephen Bathory of Hungary |
| 1575 | Jan Kostka, Palatine of Sandomierz
Andrzej Tçczyński, palatine of Belz
Maximillian II, of Germany
John III Vasa of Sweden
Aiphonso II, Duke of Ferrara
*Stephen Bathory of Hungary
Ivan IV, Tsar of Russia
Wilhelm of Nuremberg |
| 1587 | Feodor, Tsar of Russia
Andreas Bathory of Hungary
Maximilian Habsburg of Austria
*Sigismund Vasa of Sweden |
| 1632 | *Ladjslaus Vasa of Poland
(single candidate, unopposed) |
| 1648 | *John Casimir Vasa of Poland
Charles Ferdinand Vasa, of Poland
Sigismund Rakoczy of Hungary |
| 1669 | Philip Wilhelm, of Neuburg
Charles V of Lorraine and Bar
*Michal Korybut Winiowiecki
Charles Bourbon d'Longueville |
| 1674 | Charles V of Lorraine and Bar
*Jan Sobieski, Army Commander
James Stuart, Duke of York++
François Louis d'Bourbon-Conti
Charles Hohenzollem
George of Denmark |
| 1697 | François Louis d'Bourbon-Conti
James Sobieski, of Poland
Max Emmanuel, of Bavaria
*Frederijck Augustus Wettin
Livio Odescaichi, Duke of Ceri
Louis, Margrave of Baden |
| 1733 | *Augustus Wettin, of Saxony
Stanislaw Leszczyński
Emmanuel, Duke of Portugal
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| 1764 | #Frederick Christian Wettin
*Stanjslaw Antoni Poniatowski
Adam K. Czartoryski
Jan Klemens Branicki |
* Winner of the Crown
+ (later Henri III of France)
# Died of smallpox during the candidacy
÷+ (later James II of England) |